JEP 189: Shenandoah: An Ultra-Low-Pause-Time Garbage Collector

[Erik Helin]

On 11/14/2016 07:25 PM, Christine Flood wrote:
> Hi
>
> We've addressed the issues with the JEP that were brought up last summer.
> We've been meeting our performance goals.
>
> What do we need to do to get Shenandoah approved for OpenJDK10?

Hi Christine,

I read through the JEP, thanks for making the suggested changes. One 
thing I'm missing though are the operating systems you intend to 
support? The JEP mentions that Red Hat will support Shenandoah for the 
arm64 and amd64 CPU architectures, but doesn't mention any operating 
systems.

I would strongly prefer that the JEP suggested by Roman, "GC Interface: 
Better isolation of GC implementations" [0], is integrated before this 
JEP is submitted in order to ensure that the code can co-exist 
side-by-side with the existing GC algorithms (and be maintained 
effectively by another contributor). Would you mind adding a dependency 
in the Shenandoah JEP on Roman's "GCInterface" JEP?

As for the JEP process, please see http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/1 and 
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/jep/jep-2.0-02.html.

Thanks,
Erik

[0]: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8163329

> Christine
>